The corporate watchdog’s consultation paper is an important step forward but the limited licence regime needs to be redesigned to provide scaled advice for self-managed s...

After recommendation from the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, legislation to increase the maximum number of SMSF members from four to six is expected to pass thro...

Peter Hogan will retire from self-managed superannuation representative body the SMSF Association at the end of September. ...

The median ‘operating expense’ for a self-managed super fund is $3,923, according to the Australian Taxation Office, far lower than the $13,900 quoted in a recent SMSF fa...

The Retirement Income Review should not neglect looking at the retirement phase and needs to encourage governments to remove super policy from the budget policy cycle, th...

Running a SMSF is $8,900 cheaper than what ASIC believes, according to the SMSF Association....

Members of a self-managed super fund who deliberately hold an APRA-regulated fund for life insurance are at risk of losing this benefit if they fail to act before legisla...

The SMSF sector has unsurprisingly welcomed Labor’s election loss, after an extensive campaign against the party’s dividend proposal that the SMSF Association claimed aim...

The SMSF Association has welcomed the government’s proposed changes regarding calculating ECPI and increasing the age where the work test for making contributions to supe...

A key industry body has advocated for a spousal rollover measure for super fund members to allow couples to even out their balances to try to minimise the gender retireme...

The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...